The spiritual explanation of why we give birth is that we want our identities to stay back in our next generation. Our perishable bodies do not allow us to live forever and that is the reason why Nature has created such a process of continuation of identities through reproduction and transfer of genetic traits.
Our genes are the carriers of biological information and you may regard them as our "astrological positioning", which determines the way of our life. And genes are also the valuable possessions which we transfer to our offspring. "Like mother, like daughter" are some of the words used to describe this "giving" process.
And this inheritance may also make us transfer our fatness to our babies. And we have observed this phenomenon already. Fat mothers carrying fat babies may easily be spotted in shopping malls, cafeterias and on roads. But the real catch lies in the fact that researchers at the Imperial College London have claimed that babies of fat mothers will have more fat in their livers.
The findings have led researchers to conclude that a mother's BMI during pregnancy has an effect on her baby's body fat at birth. And this fat gets deposited especially in the abdominal area, thereby indicating the presence of high amounts of fat in the area surrounding the lover.
Researchers wanted to find out the correlation between a mother's BMI and her baby's susceptibility to become obese and for that they conducted a comparison between 105 newborns at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and their mothers' BMIs before they conceived.
Proton MRI technology and spectroscopy were applied to scan the babies during their sleep. The researchers took a measurement of the total body fat content, the location of its distribution and the amount fat in the cells of the liver.
The findings indicated that the pre-conception BMIs of the mothers varied from 16.7 to 36.0. With proper adjustments in babies' gender and weight, an increase in the total, abdominal and non-abdominal fat of the babies came to be observed for each unit rise in their mothers' BMI.
Additionally, with every unit rise in the mother's BMI, an 8.6 percent increase in the babies' fat in the liver cells came to be noted. Such an increase was also noted even if the mothers had their BMIs in the normal range.
